The investment groups with portfolios containing Monsanto stock include Vanguard, State Street and Fidelity, which alone holds more than $3 billion in Monsanto stock. The protests, organized in several cities, will target Fidelity offices, asking the financial firm to move the money it manages for small and large investors out of Monsanto.

The coalition, Divest Monsanto Now!, opposes the St. Louis-based chemical giant — along with a lot of other people who’ve told pollsters that Monsanto is the corporation they hate the most — because it has genetically modified many foods, which they believe are not as healthy as naturally bred and raised crops.

Monsanto’s GM foods also threaten organic farm production by overtaking seed stocks, and have led to the increased use of pesticides such as Monsanto’s RoundUp, among others, that are compromising farm soils and contaminating rivers, according to the IRT, OCA and others participating in the protest.

Groups organized the protest after a Democracy Now! investigation found that Monsanto is sustained largely by the money from large investment firms, such as Fidelity.

The coalition is urging Americans to check their portfolios and cleanse them of any Monsanto investments. In a letter to supporters, the groups note that “millions of Americans invest their hard earned money” with the targeted investment houses.

Monsanto, they warn, “could be hiding in your 401K or pension fund as well .”